Improvement in butter-dishes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.z

GEORGE E. SAVAGE, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER-DISHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,358, dated April 18, 1876; application filed March 2, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knowu'that I, GEORGE E. SAVAGE, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a,

new Improvement in Butter-Dish Drainers and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact desoription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part ot' this specification, and represent a transverse section.

This invention relates to an improvement in what are commonly called butter-dish drainersL-that is to say, a-perforated plate on which the butter is placed, so that the drainage from the ice will run through to the receptacle beneath.

In the usual construction this plate is made of metal, electroplated. This is soon def'aced by contact with the knife, and the metal, being exposed to the action of the salt butter, oxidizes and further defaces the plate.

The object of this invention is to overcome this diliculty; and it consists in combining with a perforated metal plate a glass auxiliary plate, which, being transparent, shows clearly the ornamental plate, but prevents the Contact ofthe butter with it.

A is the drainer, of substantially the usual form, and perforated, as at a., in the usual manner. A shoulder, cl, is made around the plate, a little above the surface ot the plate, and on this a glass disk, B, is set. This disk forms the support for the butter and exposes clearly the plate beneath, and prevents all possible defacing of that plate by cutting the butter or oxidation ofthe plate; and, further, it enables the making ot the plate of much lighter metal than when it is forced to Withstand the cutting ofthe butter.

I claim- In a butter-drainer, the combination of the perforated disk A and the glass disk B, supported thereon, substantially as described.

GEORGE E. SAVAGE. Witnesses:

GEORGE A. FAY, WILLIAM M. SMITH. 

